If all you want is sort out the MTU mess, you only need to download the
latest ppp sources from Brian's site at:
http://www.Awfulhak.org/ppp.html
Compile, install, and include:
enable tcpmssfixup
in your /etc/ppp/ppp.conf.
--Renaud
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Telford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Vince Vielhaber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Rogier R. Mulhuijzen"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Brian Somers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Julian Elischer"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
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Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2001 6:53 PM
Subject: Re: Firewalling a PPPoE, any easy workaround to MTU on lan
stations?
> Hmm my timing for this topic seems right on :)
> Since I ran out of disk space trying to update to -stable this afternoon
> (now that's another topic for another day "Why so much space to keep up
> with -stable, when /stand/sysinstall can do an inplace update ?")
> So should a throw another drive in this thing and go -stable or not ?
> What does MFC'd mean ?
> Perhaps a summary of each of your thoughts would help me ?
> Thanks, I really appreaciate all the help.
> Regards, John.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Vince Vielhaber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Rogier R. Mulhuijzen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: "Brian Somers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Julian Elischer"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "John Telford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2001 7:28 PM
> Subject: Re: Firewalling a PPPoE, any easy workaround to MTU on lan
> stations?
>
>
> > On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Rogier R. Mulhuijzen wrote:
> >
> > > At 22:50 4-2-01 +0000, Brian Somers wrote:
> > > > > John Telford wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I'm putting a 4.2 R firewall in for a ppoe connection.
> (sympatico)
> > > > > > Is there any workaround I can use so I don't have to reduce the
> MTU
> > > > on all
> > > > > > the internal stations ?
> > > > > > It's a mix of Windows 9x and Macs. And I've found only one
utility
> > > > capable
> > > > > > of adjusting MTU on Macs.
> > > > > > Can anything be done on the freebsd box as the traffic goes
> through it ?
> > > > > > Thanks in advance, John.
> > > > > > P.S. the pppoe setup went fine thanks to a page at
> www.sympaticousers.org
> > > > > > and some further notes at www.freebsddiary.org
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > ppp now has an option where it will force the negotiated packet
size
> > > > > of new tcp sessions going through it down. (i.e it fiddles with
the
> > > > packets)
> > > > > check the man page.. I THINK it may be in 4.2, if not it's
> in -Stable
> > > >
> > > >It didn't make 4.2 - it was MFC'd on December 18 :-(
> > >
> > > Brian, may I quote you from a different thread? =)
> > >
> > > "I think I've figured out the problem though... can you try the latest
> > > version of ppp - should be available via
> > > http://www.Awfulhak.org/ppp.html RSN (the 010204 archive) if you
> > > don't get -current. "
> > >
> > > John might not need that version, but shouldn't he be able to run a
> newer
> > > ppp on his 4.2-R without hitches?
> >
> > No reason why not.. I'm doing it.
> >
> > Vince.
>
>
>
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